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8 Crime & Delinquency 1 (1962)

handle is hein.journals/cadq8 and id is 1 raw text is: CRIME and DELINQUENCY NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY Volume 8 January 1962 Number 1 An Age of Reason for the Juvenile Court IN A recent article Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, put his finger on a complaint that is made from time to time about the way the law deals with youthful offenders. There is a school of thought, he says, that all sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds who come athwart the law should be tossed into the slot designed for criminals- to be booked, fingerprinted, mugged, and presented to grand juries. This school operates under the slogan, 'Lower the age limits for juvenile courts.' 1 The thesis is supported in practice by some juvenile court judges and prosecutors who more or less routinely 1E. Barrett Prettyman, Three Modern Problems in Criminal Law, Washington and Lee Law Review, Fall, 1961, p. 195. refer offenders in this age group to the criminal court. The immediate question is not really so much what this minority of judges and prosecu- tors does, but rather what some people say they would like to see happen to the juvenile court. They would like to give the criminal court power to take original jurisdiction, they would like to lower the age of transfer to the criminal court, and they would like to lower the juvenile court age itself. What would such measures accom- plish? In a policy statement in this issue of CRIME AND DELINQUENCY eval- uating a survey of practice on transfer of juveniles to the criminal court, our Advisory Council of Judges reaches the conclusion that, if the objective is to obtain superior treatment or better community protection, very few chil- dren should be transferred. Those who I

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